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capital as in:  invested capital

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  • If I had capital and a theater, I wouldn't want a better lay-out than that—and here we've gone and sold 'em for a song.   (source)
    capital = money or other things of material value that could be used to create something else of value
  • That was when I learned the value of real social capital.   (source)
    capital = wealth
  • In making this suggestion, the old Greek paused ever so briefly before the word capital.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • My education in social capital continues.   (source)
    capital = wealth
  • But for you it will be a trebling of your capital.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • Social capital isn't manifest only in someone connecting you to a friend or passing a résumé on to an old boss.   (source)
    capital = wealth
  • But social capital is all around us.   (source)
  • Not the best kind of business; but an active man (and a tough man) could increase his capital many times over in a year.   (source)
    capital = material wealth
  • She also earned additional income from a capital investment in her friend's company.
    capital = cash (or more generally, material wealth -- especially assets available for use in the production of further assets)
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  • I got a report last week from Hamachi's representative in San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.   (source)
    capital = main city of the government
  • The kid was dressed in a rumpled gray jumpsuit with the word INMATE stenciled in capital letters across the back.   (source)
    capital = uppercase
  • I'll have you before a capital court martial.   (source)
    capital = important
  • I know it's not right, but I can't figure out what's wrong— maybe rape shouldn't be a capital offense….   (source)
    capital = punishable by death
  • It was the capital letter A. By an accurate measurement, each limb proved to be precisely three inches and a quarter in length.   (source)
    capital = an uppercase letter
  • This is about Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and is experiencing this pain with us despite not knowing me or Khalil.†   (source)
  • In capital cases, the State of North Carolina allows a juror to be excused if he or she does not believe in the death penalty.†   (source)
  • In the left corner of an upturned piece of sandpaper, he drew a square of perhaps an inch and shoved a capital A inside it.†   (source)
  • Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to ...to show the Capital they don't own me.†   (source)
  • They moved to New York right after college, had me a few years later, then moved to a brick townhouse in North River Heights, the hippie-stroller capital of upper upper Manhattan, when I was about a year old.†   (source)
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  • People in the lower districts of Pakistan became very worried as the Taliban moved toward the capital.†   (source)
  • You should see it, it's got curly tails on the y's and the g's, and fancy loops on the capital letters.†   (source)
  • The sun hadn't quite set when we drove into Jalalabad, capital of the state of Nangarhar, a city once renowned for its fruit and warm climate.†   (source)
  • You read a lot of capital-G great books, don't you?†   (source)
  • The wizard held a staff in one hand, and below him, printed in all capital letters, was the legend I DARE YE ENTER ...THE DUNGEONS OF DAGGORATH!†   (source)
  • He had Zero write a few more upper —and lowercase A's, and then he moved on to a capital B. This was going to take a long time, he realized.†   (source)
  • Just not with a capital G. What's your IQ?" he asks Lev.†   (source)
  • The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society, a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed.†   (source)
  • One of her friends was living in a suburb of Washington, D.C., and Cecy thought that in the capital, she could find out more about Allen.†   (source)
  • And Mr. Winterbottom was playing the role of Father, with a capital F. He sat at the head of the table with his white shirt cuffs rolled back neatly.†   (source)
  • They didn't have the capital.†   (source)
  • "Puppy" is written at the top in capital block letters.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they resented being stuck in Paris during the summer, a season when the French normally evacuate the capital.†   (source)
  • Then the light spot over the capital shrank as the parabolic mirror began to focus the light more tightly.†   (source)
  • Wikipedia: Taiyun (Chinese: pinyin: Taiiyucin) is the capital and largest city of Shanxi province in North China.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, in the far northwest corner of the capital, the lights of those initially darkened blocks flickered back on.†   (source)
  • Five months later, in April 1932, Paul was able to record positive figures once again for Holsten Jewelers, and he used the capital to modernize the newly renamed Altona Market Jewelers.†   (source)
  • God-capital G, God.†   (source)
  • They rode in a truck from the Ifo refugee camp to a processing center in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya.†   (source)
  • Others pointed to the different levels of cultural capital and social resources our mothers possessed: my parents were college graduates, as were my grandparents, and my mother was able to tap into a wide network of supportive friends, family, and professional contacts when she needed help.†   (source)
  • I was feeling dizzy, but since the capital moment of my life was coming up this dizziness only added to my sense of frightened sublimity.†   (source)
  • By the late 1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court had grown impatient with challenges to capital punishment.†   (source)
  • I went to this place about two days' ride from the capital of Sichuan province, and the locals spat at me because they hadn't seen a white person before.†   (source)
  • In fact, the capital moved all over the place before settling down on the banks of the Potomac River in 1800.†   (source)
  • I correctly answered that Tokyo was the capital of Japan, Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, Ottawa the capital of Canada, and Bogota the capital of Colombia.†   (source)
  • She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters.†   (source)
  • So, okay, ten o'clock, and then it's eight hours to the capital, and—" she consulted her papers again.†   (source)
  • They say he intends to remake the Austrian town of Linz into an empyrean city, the cultural capital of the world.†   (source)
  • Then he walked Bod around the graveyard, placing the boy's small fingers on the newest and clearest of the headstones and the plaques, and taught Bod how to find the letters of the alphabet when they appeared, beginning with the sharp steeple of the capital A. Silas gave Bod a quest—to find each of the twenty-six letters in the graveyard—and Bod finished it, proudly, with the discovery of Ezekiel Ulmsley's stone, built into the side of the wall in the old chapel.†   (source)
  • With my big feet and pencil body, I looked like a capital L walking down the road.†   (source)
  • Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 echoed with the cacophony common to huge air terminals.†   (source)
  • But it was evident that underneath their apparent complacency, Savannah's blacks were beset by an anguish and despair that ran so deep and expressed itself with such violence that it had made Savannah the murder capital of America.†   (source)
  • I do apologize for any inconvenience, but I will explain this all tomorrow night on the Capital Report.†   (source)
  • The Japanese cleared strawberry fields, for strawberries grew well in San Piedro's climate and required little starting capital.†   (source)
  • With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year.†   (source)
  • What's the capital of New York?†   (source)
  • Luis thinks it could even return this area to its former prominence as the tangerine capital of the world.†   (source)
  • And Malaysia is in Southeast Asia and it is made up of peninsular Malaysia and Sabah and Sarawak and Labuan and the capital is Kuala Lumpur and the highest mountain is Mount Kinabalu, which is 4,101 meters high, but that wasn't on the advert.†   (source)
  • There weren't enough of them to form recognizable letters or shapes—except for a capital "I"—so they didn't march much at halftimes of games.†   (source)
  • Got to have capital improvements in a business.†   (source)
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